St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-08
FREE GRACE.
THE GREAT UNKNOWN HEAD
QUARTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.
Heaven the Home of the Prince OF This
Loving Doctrine-No Frost Nor FEARS NOT
Aches Are There-Dr. Talmage's briiilah'
Picture of the Christians Reward.

RRooKLYN. October 2.-The capacity
for still larger audience has been MADE
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. An ad-
Joined lecture-room has been quilt SO
that during the week it is used by itself,
Int on the Sabbath it is thrown INTO the
main auditorium and filled by those Sit
ting or standing. Notwithstanding the
enlargement the crowds that go away
not able to get inside the building are
greater this fall than ever before. 10
day the pastor explained appropriate
nassaces of Scripture. Professor Browne
rendered upon the organ the First Sonata
in D Minor Ritter. The text of the ser
mon was from II Corinthians, Oh. viii,
vs.: Eye know the grace of our Lord
Jesns Christ, that, though He was rich,
vet for your sakes He became poor"
DR.. Talmage said:
That all the worlds which on cold
winters night make the heavens one
great glitter are inhabitantless is an alb
surdity. Philosophers tell US that many
of these worlds are too hot or too cold
ortoo rarefied of atmosphere for residence
But, if not fit for human abode, they may
be fit for beings different from and su-
perior to ourselves. We are told that
the world of Jupiter is changing until
it is almost fit for creatures like the hui
man race, and that Mars would do for
the human family with little change in
the structure of the respiratory organs.
But that there is great world swung
somewhere, vast beyond Imagination,
and that it is the headquarters OF the
universe, and the metropolis of imh- IN
sitv, and has a population in numbers
vast beyond all statistics, and appoint
ments of splendor beyond the capacity
of canvas, or poem, or angel to describe,
is as certain as the Bible is authentic.
Perhaps some of the astronomers with
their big telescopes have already caught
a glimpse of it, not knowing what 1t IS.
We spell it with six letters and pro-
nounce it Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nine
teen centuries ago. He was the Kings
son. It was the old homestead of eter-
nifty, and all it's castles were as old as God.
Not a frost had ever chilled the air. Not
a tear had ever rolled down the cheek OF
one of its inhabitants. There had never
been in it headache, or sideache, or a
heartache. There had not been a fu-
neral in the memory of the oldest in
habitant. There had never in all the
land been woven a black veil, for there
had never been anything to mourn over.
The passage of millions of years had not
wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any of
its citizens All the people there were
in a state of eternal adolescence. What
floral and pomonic richness! Gardens
of perpetual bloom and orchards in
unending fruitage. Had some spirit from
another world entered and asked-What
is sin? What is bereavement? What
is sorrow? What is death? the bright
est of the intelligences would have failed
to give definition, though to study the
question there were silence in Heaven
for half an hour. The Prince of whom
I speak had honors, emoluments, &C.
Carnations, such as no other prince,
celestial or terrestrial. ever enjoyed. AS
He passed the street the inhabitants
took off from their brows garlands of
white lilies and threw them in the way.
He never entered any of the temples
without all the worshipers rising up and
bowling in obedience. In all the process
sions of the high days He was the one who
evoked the loudest welcome. Sometimes
on foot, walking in loving talk with the
humblest of the land but at other times
He took chariot Again He took the
white palfrey with what prance of
foot, and arch of neck, and roll of
name, and CLEAN of eye is only dimly
suggested in the Apocalypse. He was
not like other princes, waiting for the
Father to die and then take the throne.
When few years ago an artist in
Germany made picture for the Royal
Gallery representing Emperor William
on the throne, and the Crown Prince as
having one foot on the step of the
throne, Emperor William ordered the
picture changed and said: Let the
prince keep his foot off the throne till l
leave it."
Already enthroned was the heavenly
prince side by side with the Father.
What circle of dominion! What myr-
midons of admirers What amending
round of glories! All the towers chimed
the Princes praises. Of all the inhabit-
ants, from the centre offthe city, on
over the hills and clear down to the
beach against which the ocean of i'm
mensity rolls it's pillows, the Prince was
the acknowledged favorite. No wonder
my text says that "He was rich" Set all
the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre,
build all the palaces of the earth in one
Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the
sea in one diadem, put all the
values of the earth in one coin,
the aggregate would not express
his affiuence. Yes, Paul was right.
Solomon had in gold six hundred
and eighty million pounds and in silver
one billion Twenty-Five million three
hundred and seventy-seven pounds
sterling. But greater than Solomon is
here. Not the millionaire, but the
quadrillionaire of Heaven To describe
his celestial surroundings the Bible uses
all colors, gathering them in rainbow
over the throne and setting them as agate
in the temple window, and hosting
twelve OF them into a wall from striped
jasper at the base to transparent
amethyst in the capstone, while between
are green of emerald, and snow of pearl,
and blue Of sapphire, and yellow of
topaz, gray of chrysoprasus, and flame
Of jacinth. All the loneliness Of land
scape in foliage, and river, and rill, and
all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of
glass minpipd with fro 90 y-har tho orr